2023-05-30 07:01:00
He President Gustavo Petro He is not the only one who apparently wants to bypass the judicial branch. Apparently, Laura Sarabia, right hand of the presidentthere would be neglected the procedures to advance judicial investigations and now he is under the magnifying glass for practicing a polygraph without supposed authorization to his ex-nanny.
They point to her as an alleged suspect of rob a briefcase with 7 thousand dollars in the house of the senior official. The scandal reached such a point that the fiscal general, Francisco Barbosawent out to explain to Sarabia that the The only entity that can carry out judicial investigations is the Prosecutor’s Office and you are already finding out if it was un irregular use of the Judicial Police, a hypothesis that has already been ruled out by the director of that institution, General William Salamanca.
By the way, Barbosa had to clarify the importance of national security limits and assured her that he would summon her to testify along with the rest of the officials who could have been involved in what could be called a malpractice because according to the prosecutor, the polygraph is not a judicial test contemplated in the penal code. Likewise, Sarabia is preparing for a investigation in the Attorney General’s Office for an alleged abuse of power.
A kind of “parajusticia”?
What is certain is that Sarabia presented at the end of January of this year a complaint for the theft of a briefcase with money at his home and immediately the Prosecutor’s Office began an investigation in conjunction with the Sijin.
However, this weekend a parallel door was apparently opened after the recent complaints by Marelbys Meza, the lady that the senior official hired to take care of her son, in which She stated that they took her to a basement in front of the Casa de Nariño to perform a polygraph test on her; an act that she felt was kidnapping and intimidation, according to what she told Semana Magazine.
Faced with this, Barbosa clarified that the initial investigation was progressing very well, but now they stopped to carefully review whether the reports were delivered irregularly, or not. And it is that what was stated by the ex-nanny was so serious that the Prosecutor’s Office granted her a protection scheme and assured that she had already there is an ongoing investigative process, in addition to the theft, to verify what they did without the assistance of the investigative body because the Prosecutor’s Office never issued an order to perform a polygraph test on the former babysitter.
“We are investigating whether there were gaps in the investigative process and we hope that after a door that was opened let’s not find a cave where they are doing some kind of parajustice, their own investigations in the country”, Barbosa pointed out in conversation with Blu Radio.
Faced with the suspicions of the investigative body about irregular behavior on the part of the Police, General Salamanca came out to show his face and said that they fully trust the procedure carried out by the men in charge of the President’s security chief and they are waiting for what the Prosecutor’s Office concludes with its investigations.
“They inform me that it was a procedure adhered to the norm, transparent and there was consent of the person in the actions of the Police”, said the director of that institution.
It turns out that in conversation with that same magazine, Sarabia admitted that there was no court order to submit Meza to the test, but defended that it was only a routine process that was carried out even on the drivers. and that even the ex-nanny signed a consent for it.
However, for Barbosa the fact is much more serious because it is a mechanism that, although it can be used within the framework of national security, It cannot be practiced in private individuals, and Mrs. Marelby falls within the private sphere. “No one can take a citizen to carry out tests of any kind to seek responsibilities, that existed with the DAS at its worst moment,” said the attorney general.
The case gave Barbosa the opportunity to explain to Sarabia what the notion of national security is, which, in simple words, indicates that if a public official’s belongings are stolen, as is the case of Sarabia, they must enter to study if it’s a matter of national security or rather a matter of legal good that affects the personal patrimony of the official.
“You must not exceed yourself, whoever commits actions outside the law will have to answer to the authorities,” said the attorney general.
Thus, Barbosa took the opportunity to determine the limits of the action of public officials and did not let Petro get away with the separation of powers that are so fought over and He reminded him that the only entity that conducts judicial investigations is the Prosecutor’s Office and that this is protected by the Constitution.
“Remind the Executive that the Prosecutor’s Office does not depend on the Executive, that the Prosecutor’s Office is part of the judicial branch and that one cannot believe that the Judicial Police can receive information under the criteria that the National Police depends on the President,” Barbosa sentenced, adding one more fight to the long list of encounters he has had with Petro in recent months, including the independence and judicial autonomy in which the courts scolded the president, the failed release of the young people on the front line and the constant complaints by the chief investigator about the drug traffickers who want to sneak into total peace.
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